Black's Picturesque Guide to the English LakesAdam and Charles Black, 1842 - 154 pages |
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... lady , who ( as Pennant quaintly remarks ) , " had the good fortune to descend to the grave with her head , in all probability , merely by outliving her tyrant . " Opposite to the castle , on the west side of the town , is Castle - how ...
... lady , who ( as Pennant quaintly remarks ) , " had the good fortune to descend to the grave with her head , in all probability , merely by outliving her tyrant . " Opposite to the castle , on the west side of the town , is Castle - how ...
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... Lady le Fleming . The celebrated falls are within the park , and strangers desirous to view them , must take a conductor from one of the cottages near the hall gates . The fall below the house is beheld from the window of an old summer ...
... Lady le Fleming . The celebrated falls are within the park , and strangers desirous to view them , must take a conductor from one of the cottages near the hall gates . The fall below the house is beheld from the window of an old summer ...
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... Lady le Fleming in 1824 , at her own expense . Wordsworth addressed some pleasing verses to her Ladyship on seeing the foundation pre- paring for its erection , from which these lines are taken : - " O Lady ! from a noble line Of ...
... Lady le Fleming in 1824 , at her own expense . Wordsworth addressed some pleasing verses to her Ladyship on seeing the foundation pre- paring for its erection , from which these lines are taken : - " O Lady ! from a noble line Of ...
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... lady a companion . " The Astrologer , sage Sidrophel , Where at his desk and book he sits , Puzzling on high his curious wits ; The whole valley of Grasmere , in fact , teems with memorials of Wordsworth . There is scarcely a crag , a ...
... lady a companion . " The Astrologer , sage Sidrophel , Where at his desk and book he sits , Puzzling on high his curious wits ; The whole valley of Grasmere , in fact , teems with memorials of Wordsworth . There is scarcely a crag , a ...
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... ladies have been known , like Wordsworth's Idle Shepherd Boy , to possess the intrepidity to pass . Two roads " There is a spot which you may see If ever you to Langdale go . Into a chasm , a mighty block * Hath fallen , and made a ...
... ladies have been known , like Wordsworth's Idle Shepherd Boy , to possess the intrepidity to pass . Two roads " There is a spot which you may see If ever you to Langdale go . Into a chasm , a mighty block * Hath fallen , and made a ...
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abbey Ambleside ancient ascent Bank Bassenthwaite beautiful Beck Borrowdale Braithwaite Brathay Bridge Buttermere called cascade Castle chapel church Cockermouth Coniston cottages Crag crossed Crummock Crummock Water Cumberland dale Derwent Derwent Water Derwentwater distance Earl east elevation eminence Ennerdale erected excursion farm house feet foot four miles Furness Gill Grasmere Grasmoor Green Greta half a mile half miles Hall Haws head height Helm Crag Helvellyn High island Isle Kendal Keswick lake Langdale Pikes Latrigg Lord Loughrigg Fell Lowdore Lowther margin mountains neighbourhood park pass Patterdale Penrith picturesque poet promontory residence road rock Rothay round ruins Rydal Scale Hill Scawfell Pikes scenery seat Seat Sandal seen shore side Skiddaw stands steep stream summit Tarn three miles Threlkeld tourist tower town trees Troutbeck Ulleswater Ulverston vale valley village walls Wansfell Wastdale Water Westmorland Whitehaven Windermere woods Wordsworth Wythop
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Page 63 - To Scotland's heaths ; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound This solitary Tree ! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.
Page 107 - How nourished here through such long time He knows, who gave that love sublime ; And gave that strength of feeling, great Above all human estimate ! t 1805.
Page 28 - Dispirited : when, all at once, behold ! Beneath our feet, a little lowly vale, A lowly vale, and yet uplifted high Among the mountains; even as if the spot Had been from eldest time by wish of theirs So placed, to be shut out from all the world ! Urn-like it was in shape, deep as an urn; With rocks encompassed, save that to the south Was one small opening, where a heathclad ridge Supplied a boundary less abrupt and close ; A quiet treeless nook, with two green fields, A liquid pool that glittered...
Page 35 - I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history; And, questionless, here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie...
Page 19 - Smiling so tranquilly, and set, so deep ! Oft doth your dreamy loveliness return, Colouring the tender shadows of my sleep With light Elysian ; for the hues that steep Your shores in melting lustre, seem to float On golden clouds from spirit-lands remote, Isles of the blest; and in our memory keep Their place with holiest harmonies : fair scene, Most loved by evening and her dewy star!
Page 55 - Paled in by many a lofty hill, The narrow dale lay smooth and still, And, down its verdant bosom led, A winding brooklet found its bed.
Page 58 - But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks ! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved...
Page 81 - And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shall be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Page 86 - And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 19 - The bosom of the mountains, spreading here into a broad basin discovers in the midst Grasmere-water, its margin is hollowed into small bays with bold eminences : some of 'them rocks, some of soft turf that half conceal and vary the figure of the little lake they command. From the shore a low promontory pushes itself far into the water, and on it stands a white village with the parish...